tavern

English

Etymology

From Old French taverne (“wine shop”), from Latin taberna (“inn”). Doublet of taberna and taverna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtævən/

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• IPA^(key): /ˈtævɚn/
• Rhymes: -ævə(ɹ)n
• Hyphenation: tav‧ern

Noun

tavern (plural taverns)

1. A building containing a bar licensed to sell alcoholic drinks, and usually offering accommodation; an inn.
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     At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

Usage notes

Some dictionaries, such as the Cambridge, Collins, and Oxford dictionaries, consider this term dated.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:pub

Derived terms

• tavernous

Translations

bar

• Arabic: حَانَة f (ḥāna)
• Armenian: պանդոկ (hy) (pandok)
• Bulgarian: механа (bg) n (mehana)
• Catalan: taverna f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 酒館／酒馆 (zh) (jiǔguǎn), 酒馆 (zh) (jiǔguǎn), 酒店 (zh) (jiǔdiàn), 客棧／客栈 (zh) (kèzhàn), 客栈 (zh) (kèzhàn) (inn)

• Czech: hostinec (cs) m, krčma (cs) f
• Dutch: taverne (nl) f
• Esperanto: drinkejo, taverno, gastejo
• Finnish: kapakka (fi), kievari (fi), taverna (fi), pubi (fi), ravintola (fi)
• French: taverne (fr) f
• Galician: taberna (gl) f, tasca f, baiuca (gl) f
• German: Gasthaus (de) n, Schankwirtschaft (de) f
• Greek: ταβέρνα (el) f (tavérna), καπηλειό (el) n (kapileió)

  Ancient: καπηλεῖον n (kapēleîon), λέσχη f (léskhē)

• Hungarian: csárda (hu), kocsma (hu)
• Icelandic: krá (is) f, knæpa f
• Ido: taverno (io)
• Irish: teach tábhairne m, teach óil m, teach ósta m
• Italian: taverna (it) f, osteria (it) f, birreria (it) f
• Japanese: 居酒屋 (ja) (いざかや, izakaya), タバーン (tabān), 酒場 (さかば, sakaba)
• Khmer: ភោជនាគារ (km) (pʰoucea’niekie)
• Korean: 주막 (ko) (jumak), 술집 (ko) (suljip)
• Latin: caupōna (la) f, taberna f, (low-grade) canaba f
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• Macedonian: крчма f (krčma), гостилница f (gostilnica), биртија f (birtija)
• Maori: pāparakāuta
• Norwegian: kro m, taverna m
• Osage: hpéeceniihci
• Plautdietsch: Schenkj f
• Polish: tawerna (pl) f, karczma (pl) f
• Portuguese: taberna (pt) f
• Romanian: bodegă (ro) f, berărie (ro) f, braserie (ro) f
• Russian: бар (ru) m (bar) (Western style), каба́к (ru) m (kabák) (dated or pejorative), тракти́р (ru) m (traktír), таве́рна (ru) f (tavérna) (in Southern Europe), заку́сочная (ru) f (zakúsočnaja), пивна́я (ru) f (pivnája), корчма́ (ru) f (korčmá) (dated, in Belarus or Ukrainе)
• Scottish Gaelic: taigh-seinnse m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: krčma (sh) f, ugostionica f, gostionica (sh) f

• Slovak: krčma (sk) f
• Slovene: gostilna f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: kjarcma f

  Upper Sorbian: korčma f

• Spanish: taberna (es) f
• Swedish: gästgiveri (sv) n, krog (sv) c
• Tagalog: taberna
• Ukrainian: корчма f (korčma) (dated), кнайпа f (knajpa), пивна́ f (pyvná), пивни́ця f (pyvnýcja), шинок (šynok) (archaic), бар (uk) (bar), паб (pab)
• Vietnamese: tửu quán (vi)
• Welsh: tafarn (cy), cyrfdy m